Dozens of migrants hoping to reach Britain scrambled aboard a cross-Channel ferry in northern France, sparking a 12-hour manhunt as police combed the ship to find them, officials said Sunday.
Around 100 migrants broke into the dock area of the port of Calais late Saturday, ...

British and French maritime authorities have rescued more than 40 migrants trying to cross the Channel into the U.K. in six small boats over two days, officials said on Wednesday.
Five dinghies, carrying 40 people from Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan, were spotted on Christmas Day, ...

It is getting colder, the clock is ticking and regional authorities are scrambling to meet President Emmanuel Macron's deadline: get migrants off France's streets and out of forest hideouts by year's end.
That won't likely happen, and Macron's government is now tightening the screws: ramping ...

Somali teenager Abdulaziz Ahmad hunkered down in the sand dunes outside Calais, once again plotting how to reach Britain, eight months after French government bulldozers cleared a sprawling migrant camp in the northern port town.
Back in October, Ahmad, 17, was rehoused in a reception ...

A fire has destroyed most of a migrant camp in northern France after fighting between rival groups injured five people, leaving officials scrambling on Tuesday to rehouse around 1,700 people.
The Grande Synthe camp of tightly packed wooden cabins, set up just over a year ...

French authorities prepared on Thursday to dismantle a makeshift migrant camp in central Paris, its numbers swelled by refugees from a larger settlement in Calais that was meanwhile shut down for good.
In twin actions that epitomised Europe's failure to adequately cater for the waves ...

A slum camp built by migrants on France's northern shore, harboring unfathomable hope and humanity mixed with filth and fear, is now a puddled moonscape of dirt and sand dunes.
Bulldozers and cleaning crews are erasing the final traces of the vast makeshift camp in ...

French authorities said on Wednesday they had finished clearing the "Jungle" shanty town outside Calais built by migrants who had hoped to cross to Britain but who are now mostly being dispersed around France.
The operation passed off peacefully for the most part, though some ...

France began clearing the sprawling "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais on Monday, with hundreds carrying suitcases queuing outside a hangar to be resettled in reception centres across the country.
The first buses departed less than an hour after immigration workers started the operation and officials ...

Paris demanded Monday that Britain honor promises to take in migrant children from the notorious "Jungle" camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red Cross that London is dragging its heels.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he ...

French villagers are protesting the arrival of migrants who are being dispersed around the country as the government shuts down the slum-like camp in Calais that has become a flash point in Europe's migrant crisis.
Three competing rallies were held Saturday in Pierrefeu in southeast ...

French authorities will soon announce that the remaining half of the "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais will be dismantled, the mayor of the northern port city said on Monday.
In February and March authorities dismantled the southern half of the camp, where thousands of migrants ...